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Your smartphone is a pretty personal item, and we all like to do the little things to make them our own -- like setting a signature on outgoing email messages. It's easy to do (and easy to change) on both the Gmail app as well as the Android mail client. Grab your phone, and follow along:
Gmail app
While in the app, tap the menu button, then More, then Settings
Tap the entry for the...

Because Google wants us all to use the cloud, they have some pretty slick ways to make it easy with your Android device. One of the free perks of having a Google account is your own online gallery at Picasa, where photos under 2048 x 2048 pixels and videos up to 15 minutes in length can be stored in unlimited numbers, and anything larger can be applied to your 1GB storage limit. Read more about...

If you're new to Android (or smartphones in general) you're probably a little flummoxed by having to charge your phone more often than you would like. It's a never-ending battle with technology -- we demand more from our devices, and it takes more battery power to deliver it. While we don't see much point in disabling half the features of your Android powered phone to stretch the time...

Android phones are inherently connected. Google allows for excellent contact management, syncing across devices and platforms, and chock full 'o options. Sometimes, the easy ones can get lost in the shuffle -- like marking a contact as a favorite, and adding it to your "Favorites" (or starred in Android) group for easy access. Here's a quick tip that can alleviate a lot of searching for...

This tip is one that seems counter-intuitive, but you can save a lot of wear and tear on your Android phone's battery if you tell it to keep the Wifi radio turned on and connected while the phone is sleeping. Your phone needs a lot of juice to keep pinging those cell towers, and even more to transmit data to and from them. Wifi radios use much less power because of their design, and they don't...

One of the best perks of having an Android phone is Google Maps and free turn by turn navigation for Android. A part of Google Maps that we often forget about is the Labs section. In Google's own words "Labs is a testing ground for experimental features that aren't quite ready for primetime. They may change, break or disappear at any time." They are also pretty darn cool, offering things...

Nothing worse than losing your tablet, right? And you want to do anything you can to get it back, right? Here's a simple little tip: In Honeycomb, go to Settings>Location and Security. You'll see a little "Owner Info" box, and the option to display your owner info on the home screen. You can put anything you want in this space as a little message to someone who might find your tablet. Say, "...

Have you ever tried silencing all notifications, noises, beeps and pings on your Honeycomb tablet? You can try the volume buttons all you want, but sometimes, sounds still slip through. In fact, if you're not really paying attention to the three locations from which you can do it, chances are you'll only be turning off some of the notifications rather then them all. Here is how you do it: Go to...

One of the very cool things about Android is the ability to use alternative Homescreens and launchers. The popularity of Launcher Pro and ADW.launcher -- among other great ones -- are a testament to this. Setting them up is easy enough, once installed you make the choice the first time you hit the home button on your Android phone. But what if we need or want to switch back, and don't want to...

Flash was included as a feature by default in Android 2.2 Froyo, but there are some phones that don't or can't support Flash. As a general rule of thumb anything that is "low-end" won't be able to run Adobe's flagship software, but there are a couple others that can't as well. Here's the list of Android devices certified to run Flash: Acer Liquid Acer Liquid E Ferrari Special Edition...